ps3 login

[wave702]

hi, ive been using HFS for quite a while to stream and move large files accross from my PC to my ps3 and so far its been great!!! but now ive noticed the ps3 cannot login when you restrict access on HSF. i wanted to restrict access for security reasons so only I can login with a username and password that only I know. it works from other PC's, even my windows mobile phone but it doesnt work from my ps3. This is what happens:

I have my PC on with HFS running and the root restricted with a username and password.
I turn on my ps3 and browse to my PC's IP address
I am welcomed by the ps3's browsers username and login page for the website (HFS asking for login)
Type the username and password and then receive this message on the page itself. Im not sure if its a ps3 error code or a HFS error code
"The page cannot be displayed (80711008)"

I remember login like this used to work some months ago on the ps3 with HFS and now it doesnt. Can anyone help?

[ebola]

Hi

This is the errorcode of PS3 for Net-Problems.
Check out google. Lot's of postings about that. Most of the time an update seems to fix this ...


Cheers,
ebola

[wave702]

Yeh apparently its a ps3 connection problem and many people having it with the latest ps3 firmware when streaming media from a PC. But i can stream perfectly fine if i disable user login on HFS. I only get the error when user login is enabled and im at the user login prompt.  Which doesnt seem to relate to actually streaming at all. Everything else on ps3 works fine.
Other than waiting for the next firmware update, are there any workarounds to this problem? Is there any other way to restrict access on HFS?

[Scotty]

Not sure if it's just about security credentials. I've tried to watch BBC iplayer via the browser and get the same error. To be honest I think I made a bad move expecting the PS3 to be a media centre, seems this concept has a different meaning to the Sony adverts...should have got myself a PC

[TSG]

Run a UPnP Media Server and you can access things right through the XMB. I have approached rejetto about implementing something like this and it is on the to-do for the future. The PS3 browser has minimal capabilities, it does come in handy when your too lazy to move over to your computer or open up your laptop while gaming though.

I have tested this myself and I cant find this issue you are having... Maybe i don't have the same setup with my HFS. I don't know what the BBC iPlayer is but I would assume its a flash based player, and may require a newer version of flash than what is in the current firmware. A PC will always be more flexible for the obvious reasons, but I have no problems using either my PS3 or 360 as media streaming/playing devices. I wish they would incorporate MKV support though, all my avi codecs are supported but these new mkv HR vids basically don't play.

I dont like to advertise other servers cause lets face it, HFS is the best . But Tversity is a pretty neat little media server. It also has the capability to re-encode unsupported formats on the fly for the connecting device as it streams. Of course you need a decent processor, it depends on the job. You will always lose quality with this conversion process, I have found anyway. It will also compress videos so they fit down the connection without too much buffering.

http://tversity.com/

It will work with most devices that support the UPnP Media Server capability.

[wave702]

yeh i use HFS mainly to transfer big files accross the network and the fact that i can stream without the pc needing to re-encode the media. HFS still works on ps3 but just not when you view restricted folders. Im sure sony did something to the ps3 browser in the last update thats made it like this because it's only the ps3 that cant log into HFS.

Im using something simular that re-encodes media to other devices, winamp remote (comes with winamp). I like it because it works with my windows phone too and was recognised by my ps3 as a media server. I think this is an example of a UPnP server you were talking about, havnt tried tversity yet.

About MKV support, i researched a bit about it before and the ps3 is actually capable of playing mkv files, just not in the mkv filetype. MKV is a container file type like avi. They can be differnet codecs for each avi file. As long as your mkv's video is in a codec the ps3 has like an MPEG4 codec, conversion will be instant and lossless because there is no re-encoding of data, acual video and sound is left alone, just the container filetype converted. I use mkv2vob for this and it can also do re-encoding for you if the codec isnt supported by ps3.

Im happy with the ps3 so far being the media does all thingy for the front room, the last update enabled full-screen mode for flash movies like on you have on youtube lol. Their getting there!

[TSG]

You can disable the conversion in the tversity settings.

Couldn't you rename .mkv filetypes to .avi, without using software? I used to do that before I started using VLC. Back before Media Player Classic supported them. But anyway that's off topic. Lets hope in the next browser update they work it out. If it hits the ps3 boards it will usually get noticed and repaired.

[wave702]

Thats perfect , i think i'll give that a shot until this issue is resolved. I rather be using HFS tho, nice and light software that just WORKS.

U could probably rename it avi and see if it works. The player should ignore info thats not consistant with the AVI standard. But AVI cant hold certain info like aspect ratio i think... so i think the software converts mkv's by removing info AVI cant store.

Thanks for the help guys, im also open to suggestions to another engenous way to restict access on HFS . For example, can i tell HFS to not ask the ps3 for a username/password but ask it for everyone else Is that possible???

[rejetto]

you could put all the stuff for your PS3 in a specific folder and use event scripts.
something like
if {we are in the PS3 folder} and {ADDRESS is not the one of the PS3} ... {disconnect}